Faithless women (well, not anymore...)

7.12: Potential
7.17: Lies My Parents Told Me
7.18: Dirty Girls

"Lies My Parents Told Me" should actually have been named "Lies My Mother Told Me." And boy, some of this stuff was pretty disturbing, particularly Spike—then, William—and HIS lovely mother after he had turned her into a vampire. I'm no psychologist, but I know about Freudian slips and such ("When you say one thing and mean your mother—whoops, what I meant was 'another'!"); Spike's vampire mom was right up there with the disturbia. The situation with Wood's mom was more of the "what a real Slayer is" idea. She always told him that the mission was the most important thing, although he still may not fully understand all the implications of that statement, although both Spike and Buffy explained it, more or less.


"The big picture" (a phrase that's been quite often repeated of late) is simply too big—too big for personal feelings, preferences, wants, and even some needs. The Slayer's duty, the Slayer's destiny, is to mark the fate of the entire world as top priority. Not simply one, two, sixty or six hundred people, but everyone. Though the phrase "the end justifies the means" is not one that Buffy has always supported in the past, but lately there seems to be a marked change in some of her rules of conduct. Having glimpsed what lies beneath the Seal of Danzalthar, she has come to the conclusion that all the power in her corner (aka, herself, the unpredictable effectiveness of the old Scooby Gang, and a handful of half-baked potential Slayers) will not be sufficient to make even a dent on the gazillions of Turok-Hans below. Buffy has felt powerless before, but this is not the same. She seems to have been overcome by a very specific attitude of "we, the side fighting the evil, WILL survive this, even if I don't personally." In one of the episodes we did NOT watch for class, when speaking of Spike's government chip, she said something that I found really interesting: "You can't fight evil with evil." Although the series has never fully answered the question "What IS good, exactly?", it's the type of solid statement that the Slayer SHOULD utter.


Can I just say that, although I do love Nathan Fillion, I HATE Caleb? "Can I say something stronger than hate—can I reVILE Caleb?" His twisted religiosity and topsy-turvy Bible-like phrasiology is disgusting. Then, far worse than Warren with the sick misogynism; at least HE wasn't ALWAYS so blatantly violent. He needs to die a horrible death very soon. We need to get rid of him as soon as possible. I don't know if I can stand him, and he's only just appeared. Maybe . . . with a little REAL Faith . . .